Next-gen Enterprise Apps

I am reviewing the latest typeset draft of my next book. While much of the content is focused on SAP, its customers and its competitors, sprinkled throughout the book are glimpses of a rapidly changing enterprise apps market.

Anshu Sharma talks about a new generation of startups being funded in Silicon Valley. Kai-Fu Lee has invested in 150 AI startups in China. Sridhar Vembu of Zoho describes how it has become easier and easier to develop new enterprise class apps. Diane Fanelli tells how ISVs develop apps on SAP's cloud platform. Thomas Grassl describes how SAP is encouraging developer communities around the world. There are plenty of mentions of Python, PyTorch and Kubernetes throughout the book.

In India and elsewhere, big outsourcers like TCS and Cognizant are offering vertical applications to insurance and healthcare. IBM with Watson, Accenture with SynOps, Uptake, C3 and others are increasingly defining apps that are more machine than human-centric. Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and others are not exactly sitting still.

Navigating this new world is going to be tricky for enterprise buyers. It will be trickier for vendors as it will call for Coopetition with a capital C.

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Next-gen Enterprise Apps

I am reviewing the latest typeset draft of my next book. While much of the content is focused on SAP, its customers and its competitors, sprinkled throughout the book are glimpses of a rapidly changing enterprise apps market.

Anshu Sharma talks about a new generation of startups being funded in Silicon Valley. Kai-Fu Lee has invested in 150 AI startups in China. Sridhar Vembu of Zoho describes how it has become easier and easier to develop new enterprise class apps. Diane Fanelli tells how ISVs develop apps on SAP's cloud platform. Thomas Grassl describes how SAP is encouraging developer communities around the world. There are plenty of mentions of Python, PyTorch and Kubernetes throughout the book.

In India and elsewhere, big outsourcers like TCS and Cognizant are offering vertical applications to insurance and healthcare. IBM with Watson, Accenture with SynOps, Uptake, C3 and others are increasingly defining apps that are more machine than human-centric. Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and others are not exactly sitting still.

Navigating this new world is going to be tricky for enterprise buyers. It will be trickier for vendors as it will call for Coopetition with a capital C.